National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Grazer AK or Wattens that keep their silverware dream alive.
It's no vacation for neither Grazer nor Wattens as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Grazer AK form and stats
Action has already taken place for Grazer AK in Austrian Cup as they have defeated St. Anna to reach the 2nd Round. Grazer AK was eliminated in the 1st round last season in the Austrian Cup.Grazer AK have collected seven points from their first three Erste Liga games here at Merkur Arena, a promising start. Grazer has recorded two wins in a row here at Merkur Arena, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
In their previous game, the manager G. Plassnegger led his Grazer to a defeat in the Erste Liga match away at Rapid Wien II. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Merkur Arena.
Prior to that, an away loss at Blau-Wei Linz in the Erste Liga.The match schedule is unforgiving for Grazer as they have a new game in only four days, a Erste Liga match thankfully also at home. Wacker Innsbruck are visiting.
Grazer always seem capable of creating a buzz here at Merkur Arena with 10 goals in 3 league games. From these home matches, Grazer AK have conceded only 2 goals.
Wattens form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Leobendorf in order to reach 2nd round of Austrian Cup. They also participated in Austrian Cup last season. This ended in the 2nd round.As the visiting team in Tipico Bundesliga matches, Wattens have produced an overall stat of 0-2-2 so far. The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for Wattens, who have now gone 14 games without a victory. The Salzburg game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.
Wattens lost away at Sturm Graz (0-5) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Wattens lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-5 beating and focus on this one. Fabian Koch, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 6.82. Koch hit one key pass and won 9 of 13 duels.
A loss against Salzburg was the result prior to that, in a Tipico Bundesliga home game.A new game in only three days for Wattens, the Tipico Bundesliga home match versus Ried. Busy days.
The visiting Wattens have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 4 goals from 4 games. Wattens are struggling defensively in their away games, having conceded 4 goals in these matches.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  L. Gabbichler 4 goals | M. Gantschnig 3 goals |  G. Vrioni 3 goals |
Grazer AK missing players
Wattens missing players
| Grazer AK | Wattens | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 9 | ||
| 9 | 2 | Lost | L | 6 | 11 | ||
| 44 | 26 | Scored | S | 20 | 42 | ||
| 40 | 10 | Conceded | C | 26 | 50 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 88% | 91% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 92% | ||
| 72% | 55% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 82% | 68% | ||
| 44% | 36% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 64% | 60% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 36% | 32% | ||
| 60% | 55% | BTTS | BTTS | 45% | 64% | ||
| 24% | 45% | Clean Sheets | C S | 18% | 16% | ||
| 20% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 36% | 24% | ||
| 5.2 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.4 | 4.5 | ||
| 4.4 | 4.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 5.2 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 2 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 10.8 | 12.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.5 | 11.6 | ||
| 4.3 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4.5 | 4 | ||
| 40% | 46% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 27% | 34% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Austria Lustenau | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 21 |
| 2 | Liefering | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 15 |
| 3 | Wacker Innsbruck | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 15 |
| 4 | Lafnitz | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 |
| 5 | Blau-Wei Linz | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 14 |
| 6 | Floridsdorfer AC | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 |
| 7 | Amstetten | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 8 | SV Horn II | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 12 |
| 9 | Grazer AK | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 11 |
| 10 | Austria Wien II | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -1 | 10 |
| 11 | Kapfenberger SV | 8 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -4 | 9 |
| 12 | Juniors OO | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | -3 | 8 |
| 13 | Rapid Wien II | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -7 | 8 |
| 14 | Dornbirn | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | -8 | 7 |
| 15 | St. Polten | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -8 | 4 |
| 16 | Vorwarts Steyr | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 11 | -16 | 1 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Salzburg | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 17 | 24 |
| 2 | Sturm Graz | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 17 |
| 3 | Ried | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 12 | -6 | 12 |
| 4 | Hartberg | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 9 |
| 5 | Admira | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 9 |
| 6 | Rheindorf Altach | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -2 | 9 |
| 7 | Wolfsberger AC | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 8 | -4 | 9 |
| 8 | Austria Klagenfurt | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | -5 | 9 |
| 9 | Rapid Wien | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 10 | Austria Wien | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 11 | LASK Linz | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -4 | 7 |
| 12 | Wattens | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | -8 | 5 |